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Offline stainesy

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oil seal restorer?
« on: 12 December 2011, 18:23 »
as some of you now i have developed a small main oil seal leak.
what i want to no is can i use one of them oil seal restorers on it? the stuff you put in the oil and it puffs up your seals or something.

are they any good? anybody ever used them?

Offline DOA

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Re: oil seal restorer?
« Reply #1 on: 12 December 2011, 20:09 »
Just replace the seal.

Offline AudiA8Quattro

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Re: oil seal restorer?
« Reply #2 on: 13 December 2011, 00:35 »
They do work provided its only a small leak.
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Re: oil seal restorer?
« Reply #3 on: 13 December 2011, 07:58 »
They do work provided its only a small leak.

It leaks a bout a teaspoon when parked in garage over might if driven then parked up for over 14 hours. Would you say that's a small leak?

Also whats the best one to get and where from?
Read somewhere online it can make all your seals go hard and fail but not sure if it's true.
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Re: oil seal restorer?
« Reply #4 on: 14 December 2011, 16:43 »
It makes the seals go soft and bloat out.
You could give it go, if it doesn't work then you'll have to replace the seal, or just put up with it.
I think wynn's do one that i've used before.
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Re: oil seal restorer?
« Reply #5 on: 17 December 2011, 15:01 »
does anybody no if it will damage any of my other seals thought?

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Re: oil seal restorer?
« Reply #6 on: 17 December 2011, 17:04 »
does anybody no if it will damage any of my other seals thought?

No it will be fine.
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Re: oil seal restorer?
« Reply #7 on: 17 December 2011, 20:30 »
does anybody no if it will damage any of my other seals thought?

No it will be fine.

But all your really doing is putting off the job  :undecided: better to bite the bullet and replace the seal.

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Re: oil seal restorer?
« Reply #8 on: 18 December 2011, 11:53 »
Yeah I will be doing the job once I have the money but that won't be for a wile.

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Re: oil seal restorer?
« Reply #9 on: 18 December 2011, 13:03 »
It won't do any harm put it that way.
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